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Word: davenports (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Astoria, L. I. : "The Trinity -God, Chotzinoff* and the NBC- we thank for making these concerts a reality." Hardly less impressive than the Maestro's fan mail is the mental shag into which he has thrown Manhattan critics. Toscaniniac Marcia Davenport: "The sun shines on - and so long as it does there is nothing on earth to be heard like the electrical clarity of the least voice in Toscanini 's orchestra, or the overwhelming majesty of its full song. How or why he obtains, in the pursuit of his ideal of perfection, the almost terrible beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Victory hungry Elis were forced into extreme action this week after visiting team upon visiting team had taken the toll of the dog-house dwelling Yale bulldogs. In fact the Yale News tells of five seniors who have vowed to brave the elements in the cupola on Davenport College until the Blue eleven has a taste of victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIS VOW TO LIVE ON ROOF TILL YALE LEAVES DOGHOUSE | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson defense Ottomeyer Chicago like Mt. Vernon Miller on a Davenport...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: MAUROVICH-TORY IS MAROON HOPE, EXCLAIMS SAGE OF AGE | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

Designer Calder sells his Mobiles and Stabiles, makes them all in his workshops in Manhattan or in Roxbury, Conn. Costume Designer Millia Davenport has an outdoor Mobile-a mushroom-shaped hunk of hard Lignum vitae, balanced upon another-which ordinarily is as still as a Stabile. But during the Eastern hurricane last autumn, with trees crashing all around it, the Mobile revolved ceaselessly on its axis, all through the storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Motion Man | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Yale baseball team which will meet the Bellboys will be decided this afternoon in a playoff between Davenport and the Saybrook Seals, a game which ought to favor the visitors' chances by weakening the pitching staff of whichever Blue team wins. Lowell's star pitcher, Dick Storey, will himself probably be unable to complete the whole game, having worked for six innings on Wednesday, and will divide the duties with Wally Liverance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Inter-House Champions Meet Yale Winners Tomorrow | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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